On 25 April 1946, at the Paris Peace Conference on Germany, the French delegation submits to the Council of Foreign Ministers a memorandum on the separation and reorganisation of control of the territories of the Rhineland, the Ruhr and the Saar.

On 10 July 1946, during the Paris Peace Conference attended by the Council of Foreign Ministers, the French representative, Georges Bidault, outlines France's position on the terms for the occupation of Germany.

On 10 July 1946, during the Paris meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers, the Soviet representative, Viacheslav Molotov, sets out Moscow's stance on Germany's political, economic and military future.

On 27 July 1946, James Byrnes, US Secretary of State, delivers a speech before flying to France for the Paris Peace Conference.

The conferences of the Council of foreign ministers of the United States, the United Kingdom, France and the Soviet Union were held in Paris from April to July 1946. During the talks, it became clear that the Soviet Union had its own ambitions for its occupied zone of Germany.

The German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung comments on the debates taking place at the Paris Conference of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Allied countries on the fate of defeated Germany.